Transgender woman subjected to vicious abuse on train - as other passengers sit in silence

When a passenger on a New York subway train started shouting abuse at a transsexual woman last week, the woman, Pearl Love, took out her phone and started recording the incident.

The footage has gone viral after Love uploaded it to her Facebook and YouTube accounts: “So now you can understand what’s happening in my everyday life,” she wrote on Facebook. “That happens all the time. But it’s my first time recording it.”

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Pearl Love

The incident took place at around 4.30 in the afternoon last Thursday, in what looks like a busy train carriage.

As the woman sat opposite Love starts subjecting her to a barrage of racist and transphobic invective, none of the other passengers intervene.

In her Facebook post alongside the video Love writes:

An unknown woman sitting across me starter to verbally abuse me. Make lot of **** comments about how much she hate Trans people and want me to suck her ****. She also made racist comments. I ignored her and kept reading my book.

When the train got to 86 st she start getting so loud and crazy yelling at me so I started to record her on my phone can- she start getting even louder and start assault me and hit me. As you can see it’s definitely a hate crime. She attacked me inside the train . When I retreated she threw all my stuff on the floor and chased me around the train and say she is going to find a stick to hit me.

It was a crowded train and everyone heard it but no one helped me. Guys acting like nothing happened. For 5 min. Then when the train stop on 42 st. She got out of train but keep yelling at me, I recorded 4 videos around 3.5 min.

The clip shows the woman referring to Love as a “transvestite” and a “homo, f****** gay m**********r in some f******* women’s products and whatnot.”

“How are we supposed to act with you?" she continues. "What should we do about you? ‘Cause this **** right here ain’t appropriate for my child. I’m sorry, I don’t give a ****. I’ll fight you right now, I don’t even feel comfortable with you right now.”

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As the video draws to a close, the woman approaches Love and appears to be about to hit her.

Love, who immigrated from Taiwan to the US in 1998, told Gawker she decided to share the video on social media to raise awareness of transphobia.

“I posted it because I think people have to be educated,” she said. “If I can show people that this is what I face everyday, that would be a good thing.”